Covered Mercies: The Year of Firsts

My family and I struggled with the first year of celebrations, special days, and birthdays. Our granddaughters, daughter and my husband and I thought carefully of how to move through that year without our son, brother, and uncle. The loss of Joshua hit us hard, to say the least, but we were determined to work […]

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God’s Mercies after Suicide: Blessings Woven through a Mother’s Heart

What if you were in the house when your child shot himself there? What if you held him as his heartbeat stilled? What if Satan said in your ear, “Now where is Your God?” This is a memoir about the loss of my son, Joshua, when he was twenty-five. It is an honest account of […]

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Year of Firsts: Loss after Suicide

By Jean Ann Williams Imagine a young son who struggled his whole life with pain and illnesses, and you care for his physical needs and feel responsible for his emotional well being. Imagine this is the most important assignment God entrusted to you. Now, imagine witnessing that twenty-five year old son die by his own […]

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Wednesday Verses ~ Bewail Her

“Therefore shall her plagues come at one day, death, and sorowe, and famine, and she shalbe burnt with fire: for that God which condemneth her, is a strong Lord. And the kings of the earth shall bewayle [bewail] her, and lament for her, which haue committed fornication, and liued in pleasure with her, when they shall see that […]

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Twenty-Two Years after Suicide

Our son, Joshua, died on March 16th by suicide twenty-two years ago. We miss him. We love him. Until we go to the Great Beyond. We moved forward. We still hurt. We are blessed by our Lord. I wrote two books about our loss of Joshua and how God helped us through. If anyone here […]

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Friday Verses ~ Hail Like Talents

“And euery yle [island] fled away, and the mountaines were not found. And there fell a great haile [hail], like talents [75-125 Lbs], out of heauen vpon the men, and men blasphemed God, because of the plague of the haile: for the plague thereof was exceeding great” (Rev. 16:20, 21 [1587 Geneva Version]). Father, help us to show others that […]

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Thursday Verse ~ Great Babylon

“And the great citie was deuided [divided] into three partes, and the cities of the nations fell: and that great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to giue vnto her the cup of the wine of the fiercenesse [fierceness] of his wrath” (Rev. 16:19 [1587 Geneva Version]).  Father God, Your judgments are righteous altogether, because You are God and […]

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Friday Verses ~ Spirits Like Frogs

And I sawe [saw] three vncleane [unclean] spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of that dragon, and out of the mouth of that beast, and out of the mouth of that false prophet. For they are the spirits of deuils [devils], working miracles, to go vnto the Kings of the earth, and of the whole world, to gather them […]

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Wednesday Verses ~ Fifth Angel

“And the fifth Angel powred [poured] out his viall [vial] vpon the throne of the beast, and his kingdome waxed darke, and they gnawed their tongues for sorowe, And blasphemed the God of heauen for their paines [pains], and for their sores, and repented not of their workes” (Rev. 16:10, 11 [1587 Geneva Version]).  Father, Your judgments are just and pure. […]

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Wednesday Verse ~ Second Angel

“And the second Angel powred [poured] out his viall [vial] vpon the sea, and it became as the blood of a dead man: and euery liuing thing dyed in the sea” (Rev. 16:3 [1587 Geneva Version]).  Father, You guide all happenings upon the earth for Your judgments. Events are allowed by You. Please help us to share the cross […]

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